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The advent of deep learning has led to a significant gain in machine translation. However, most of the studies required a large parallel dataset which is scarce and expensive to construct and even unavailable for some languages. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Viet H. Pham , Thang M. Pham , Giang Nguyen , Long Nguyen , Dien Dinh

Large language models (LLMs) often necessitate extensive labeled datasets and training compute to achieve impressive performance across downstream tasks. This paper explores a self-training paradigm, where the LLM autonomously curates its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wei Jie Yeo , Teddy Ferdinan , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Ranjan Satapathy , Erik Cambria

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, but developing high-performing models for specialized applications often requires substantial human annotation -- a process that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abhinav Arabelly , Jagrut Nemade , Robert D Nowak , Jifan Zhang

This work describes a self-supervised data augmentation approach used to improve learning models' performances when only a moderate amount of labeled data is available. Multiple copies of the original model are initially trained on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Gabriele Sarti

Multi-task learning and self-training are two common ways to improve a machine learning model's performance in settings with limited training data. Drawing heavily on ideas from those two approaches, we suggest transductive auxiliary task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Johannes Bjerva , Katharina Kann , Isabelle Augenstein

Semi-supervised learning provides a solution to reduce the dependency of machine learning on labeled data. As one of the efficient semi-supervised techniques, self-training (ST) has received increasing attention. Several advancements have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jifeng Guo , Zhulin Liu , Tong Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen

The recent success of large pre-trained language models (PLMs) heavily hinges on massive labeled data, which typically produces inferior performance in low-resource scenarios. To remedy this dilemma, we study self-training as one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Jianing Wang , Qiushi Sun , Nuo Chen , Chengyu Wang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao , Xiang Li

Self-supervised learning, which benefits from automatically constructing labels through pre-designed pretext task, has recently been applied for strengthen supervised learning. Since previous self-supervised pretext tasks are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zilin Ding , Yuhang Yang , Xuan Cheng , Xiaomin Wang , Ming Liu

Enhancing the instruction-following ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily demands substantial instruction-tuning datasets. However, the sheer volume of these imposes a considerable computational burden and annotation cost. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shengguang Wu , Keming Lu , Benfeng Xu , Junyang Lin , Qi Su , Chang Zhou

We present SelfPrompt, a novel prompt-tuning approach for vision-language models (VLMs) in a semi-supervised learning setup. Existing methods for tuning VLMs in semi-supervised setups struggle with the negative impact of the miscalibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Effective convolutional neural networks are trained on large sets of labeled data. However, creating large labeled datasets is a very costly and time-consuming task. Semi-supervised learning uses unlabeled data to train a model with higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Mehdi Sajjadi , Mehran Javanmardi , Tolga Tasdizen

Recent language models achieve impressive results in tasks involving complex multistep reasoning, but scaling these capabilities further traditionally requires expensive collection of more annotated data. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Marek Kadlčík , Michal Štefánik

Lifelong learning aims to accumulate knowledge and alleviate catastrophic forgetting when learning tasks sequentially. However, existing lifelong language learning methods only focus on the supervised learning setting. Unlabeled data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yingxiu Zhao , Yinhe Zheng , Bowen Yu , Zhiliang Tian , Dongkyu Lee , Jian Sun , Haiyang Yu , Yongbin Li , Nevin L. Zhang

Self-training is an effective approach to semi-supervised learning. The key idea is to let the learner itself iteratively generate "pseudo-supervision" for unlabeled instances based on its current hypothesis. In combination with consistency…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier

Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Aurelien Gauffre , Julien Horvat , Massih-Reza Amini

Using large training datasets enhances the generalization capabilities of neural networks. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is useful when there are few labeled data and a lot of unlabeled data. SSL methods that use data augmentation are most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Himmet Toprak Kesgin , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to enhance the model generalization by sharing representations between related tasks for better performance. Typical MTL methods are jointly trained with the complete multitude of ground-truths for all tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yufeng Wang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Wenrui Ding , Shuo Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

In order to train robust deep learning models, large amounts of labelled data is required. However, in the absence of such large repositories of labelled data, unlabeled data can be exploited for the same. Semi-Supervised learning aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Soumyadeep Ghosh , Sanjay Kumar , Janu Verma , Awanish Kumar

We propose a semi-supervised text classifier based on self-training using one positive and one negative property of neural networks. One of the weaknesses of self-training is the semantic drift problem, where noisy pseudo-labels accumulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Payam Karisani